Classics and prize winners
Explore Canonical, Highly regarded and Established books. Their guides explain the awards, recognition and other evidence behind each standing assessment.
995 book guides · Showing 673–720
Firekeeper's Daughter
Angeline Boulley
Highly regarded
The Long Winter
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Canonical
Our Man in Havana
Graham Greene
Canonical
The Devil's Arithmetic
Jane Yolen
Highly regarded
Maus II
Art Spiegelman
Canonical
Tortilla Flat
John Steinbeck
Canonical
An American Tragedy
Theodore Dreiser
Canonical
The Red Pony
John Steinbeck
Canonical
The Return of the Native
Thomas Hardy
Canonical
Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov
Canonical
Sold
Patricia McCormick
Established
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Michael Chabon
Canonical
The English Patient
Michael Ondaatje
Canonical
Gilead
Marilynne Robinson
Highly regarded
The Killer Angels
Michael Shaara
Highly regarded
Shane
Jack Schaefer
Highly regarded
Two Boys Kissing
David Levithan
Established
Stamped
Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi
Established
Permutation City
Greg Egan
Established
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
Terry Pratchett
Established
The Hours
Michael Cunningham
Canonical
Girl, Woman, Other
Bernardine Evaristo
Highly regarded
Nine Stories
J. D. Salinger
Highly regarded
Cyrano de Bergerac
Edmond Rostand
Canonical
Possession
A. S. Byatt
Canonical
Antigone
Sophocles
Canonical
A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Madeleine L'Engle
Canonical
Little Town on the Prairie
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Canonical
A Month in the Country
J. L. Carr
Canonical
I'll Be Gone in the Dark
Michelle McNamara
Established
Portnoy's Complaint
Philip Roth
Canonical
This One Summer
Mariko Tamaki
Highly regarded
The First Four Years
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Highly regarded
Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders
Highly regarded
All the King's Men
Robert Penn Warren
Canonical
Feed
M. T. Anderson
Highly regarded
The October Country
Ray Bradbury
Highly regarded
The Cyberiad
Stanisław Lem
Highly regarded
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Muriel Spark
Canonical
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Tom Stoppard
Established
Bring Up the Bodies
Hilary Mantel
Highly regarded
A Sand County Almanac
Aldo Leopold
Highly regarded
By the Shores of Silver Lake
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Canonical
Chains
Laurie Halse Anderson
Highly regarded
Less
Andrew Sean Greer
Highly regarded
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Jesmyn Ward
Highly regarded
Shuggie Bain
Douglas Stuart
Highly regarded
The Sellout
Paul Beatty
Highly regarded
